BRIAN’S LEFT NO TRACE

Gabby beau eludes

Police said they have yet to find any physical evidence connected to Brian Laundrie inside a sprawling Florida nature reserve where he is believed to be hiding — and don’t know whether he’s dead or alive.

Laundrie has been the object of a manhunt at the Carlton Reserve near his family’s home in North Port Florida since his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, was found dead in Wyoming three weeks ago.

Authorities will continue to comb the nature reserve for clues to Laundrie’s whereabouts, North Port police spokesman Josh Taylor told CNN Friday, noting that something has to give in the case.

“We need to find something. I think there’s so much attention on this. I don’t know that this case would ever get to be a cold case,” he told NewsNationNow.com. “We’ll continue to search. You know, we could be searching that Carlton Reserve and nearby lands for a long, long time.”

North Port police confirmed this week that an abandoned vehicle notice was placed on a Ford Mustang belonging to the Laundries on Sept. 14 at one of the entrances to the nature reserve.

Laundrie’s parents went to the park searching for their son and saw the notice, a day after Brian Laundrie said he was headed to the reserve, according to the Laundries’ attorney. The Laundries brought the vehicle home the next day.

Meanwhile, a memorial for Petito which had sprung up in the North Port city center will be taken down and eventually replaced with a permanent remembrance, officials said.

The tribute of flowers, stuffed animals, signs and a large wooden cross will be removed Oct. 12 and the items sent to Petito’s family.

Petito’s disappearance has struck a nerve across the world but is being keenly felt by her fellow traveling campers, who say they’re ready to help authorities find Laundrie even though they fear for their own safety during a countrywide manhunt for him.

Hannah Lane, who is on a cross-country trip in a tour bus, said she will do what she can to find him.

“We need to focus on his specific identifiers and markers. Not just him being a bald guy with a beard,” Hannah Lane told The Sun newspaper. “He has a folded ear that’s triangular and a tattoo on his finger.” But Lane is scared, too. “I’m paranoid that he’s going to come to my bus,” she said.